"They were dedicated to enforcing human rights and bringing democracy to the country," Mr. Klaus said.
This sets Sufis apart from Islam's other functionaries, its jurists, or mullahs, and its theologians.Throughout Islamic history, Sufis and mullahs, dedicated to enforcing Koranic laws, have clashed.
But away from the ocean swell and off the beach, one finds a highly-stratified society where people are dedicated to enforcing their freedom by regulating others.
The deputy attorney general, James M. Cole, said the Obama administration was dedicated to enforcing federal drug laws and was choosing the best among a number of imperfect solutions by relying on states to regulate marijuana "from seed to sale".
While the Saudis — who are dedicated to enforcing stability in the region — have told Mr. Saleh he should go, the sudden change made it more difficult to structure an orderly handover of power and eventual elections.
Of the 120 employees at the Office of Foreign Assets Control, Senator Baucus said, 21 are dedicated to enforcing the Cuba embargo and only 4 to tracking the finances of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
"There has been a dramatic increase in the resources dedicated to enforcing the law by the Justice Department and the F.B.I., and even more important, a strong public commitment to compliance as well as enforcement," says Peter B. Clark, who oversaw F.C.P.A. prosecutions at the Justice Department from the enactment of the law in 1977 until his retirement two years ago.
Image the smile on mothers' faces when they realize there is a federal agency dedicated to enforcing the organic standards.
Where the attorney general had once been only a legal adviser to the president, he now led a cabinet department dedicated to enforcing federal law, including a solicitor general to argue on the government's behalf in court.
While term limits would not guarantee better jurisprudence, a larger number of appointees would increase the likelihood of at least a few advocates of an active court dedicated to enforcing the Constitution's liberty guarantees.
